You have $25 to spend, you want to buy a good quality knife, so which one do you buy? What is the purpose of a $25 survival knife? In my opinion, knives in that price range are disposable. They are the knives that if lost or stolen are not going to be expensive to replace. From a survivalist...

I have never owned any Cold Steel knives and am thinking about purchasing one for basic bushcraft/survival skills purposes and was wondering if someone who had experience with Cold Steel products could tell me if the Leatherneck-SF or Recon Scout would be the better knife for my specified...

I'm not very familiar with cold steel, and was curious if either of these would make good overall survival knives. Anyone have any experience with these knives?

Did they suddenly go up in price? I would swear they were going for around $100 some time ago, now it says $189. I was just saving money. http://www.coldsteel.com/reconscout.html